Churrasco...

So last Saturday a few friends and I went to this awesome restaurant called Tucanos.  It is a traditional type of Brazilian barbecue known as churrasco, pronounced "shoo-HA-skoo".  This is an all-you-can-eat restaurant where the buffet comes to you!  There is a "salad festival" which is their spin on a salad bar, except that it's awesome and has things you don't find at Chuck-a-rama, like heart of palm, brazilian cheese bread, fried bananas, and dozens of other types of salads, pastas, fruits, breads, cheeses, and more!



The salad, my friends, is only the beginning.  At each table there is a little wooden cylinder with a green end and a red end.  Just like in traffic, green means go, so when you are ready to go, you turn the green side up, and the food starts coming!



Waiters bring around big metal skewers with sizzling chunks of meat on them, and with a huge knife, they cut you off a piece of whatever you want!

Grilled Pineapple! A favorite.

The meat, pineapple, and some other things, like grilled vegetables are cooked over a fire on the same skewers that are used to serve.

In addition to the amazing meat and salad festival, they serve Brazilian limeade, which I discussed in an earlier post.  It is all fantastic.  It really makes me miss Brazil, because we used to eat like this about once a week.  The only difference is that there, churrasco is common and very cheap (2 or 3 bucks generally and at the most  7 or 8) but in the US, it is unique, and so you spend around $20 for lunch.  

Since we don't go very often, when we do go we eat till we're sick.  It is SOOO good.  I recommend saving up and trying it at least once.  It is totally worth the experience, unless you're vegetarian.  Great food, great atmosphere, super fun!  I deserve a free meal for doing such great adverstizing...